tf23 (175)

upgrading to R_2_3_0_62 slash

Yesterday I spent many hours upgrading a slash site (one of 4) to the latest R tag in cvs.slashcode.com.I think the whole process, beginning, to what we'll call the end, took about 5 or 6 hours.

The site is 99% functional.

I took notes throughout the whole process. I will post a story on one of my sites about it, w/ the notes, probably by next weekend. (It's the holidays, I've gotta get drunk and stuff myself numerous times over the course of the next few days).

So in the mean time, I thought I'd put up some of the errors I'd encountered.

I upgraded from CVS fry to CVS R_2_3_0_62.

I used the sql/mysql/upgrades file.

Some of the problems I had with it were (w/ the line from the upgrades file copied underneath the error):

after I did that, I had written up a few sql statements that needed to be run (basically change all the vars from sitename.org to test.sitename.org, etc), change writestatus, etc.

then i ran install-plugin to install the new plugins that I wanted on the site.

then I found out there were some scripts I needed to run:./plugins/Zoo/rebuildPeople -u testbj./utils/dst-update.plx testbj./utils/colors-update.plx testbj

after all the time spent on this, I didn't give a crap how it looked. all I was going for last nite was functionality. I can fix cosmetics later.So I blew away any customizations I had in the templats for the site's theme: